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Biden to announce halting new oil and gas drilling leases on federal land (Christie Hemm Klok | The New York Times) The Kayenta Solar Plant on the Navajo Reservation in Kayenta, Ariz. on Jan. 21, 2020. President Joe Biden will announce a suite of executive actions on Wednesday, Jan. 27, to combat climate change, two people familiar with his plans said, including a ban on new oil and gas drilling on federal land. By Lisa Friedman | The New York Times   | Jan. 26, 2021, 5:30 p.m. Washington •...

The Biden administration selected 80 professors to serve on the 600-person transition team, two of whom are from Duke.

Governors Wind Energy Coalition Climate stars surround Biden. Where does EPA fit in? Source: By Jean Chemnick, E&E News reporter • Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2020 Gina McCarthy and John Kerry deliver remarks on an air quality program in 2015. Both officials are climate advisers to President-elect Joe Biden. State Department/Sipa USA/Newscom President-elect Joe Biden has picked superstars to advance his global warming agenda. The expected appointment this week of form...

Governors Wind Energy Coalition Gina McCarthy couldn’t say no to Biden Source: By Scott Waldman and Jean Chemnick, E&E News reporters • Posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Gina McCarthy, who used her tenure as EPA administrator to build some of the most ambitious climate policies in American history, only to see them evaporate during the Trump administration, will be the top climate adviser to President-elect Joe Biden. Her appointment was confirmed by two sources clo...

Saleha Mohsin and Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Bloomberg News Janet Yellen , Photographer: Alex Wong/Getty Images (Bloomberg) -- Janet Yellen has promised to make fighting climate change a priority as Treasury secretary, spurring hope among activists she will put the issue at the center of U.S. economic policy for the first time. Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Treasury Department, has already endorsed a tax on carbon diox...